April 25, 1861
- New York’s 7th Regiment arrives in Washington, having gone around Baltimore by boat.
- In a daring nighttime operation Illinois troops steam from Alton to St. Louis and remove 10,000 muskets with the help of federal troops in the armory.
- General Edwin Vose Sumner relieves Albert Sidney Johnston as Commander, Department of the Pacific.
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- Saluria, Tex., surrendered to rebel forces.
- Legislature of Vermont voted $1,000,000 to equip volunteers.
- New York 7th Regiment reached Washington.
- Virginia proclaimed by Governor Letcher to be a member of the Confederate States.
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863